Akhurst Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Farmhouse.
Akhurst Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- half-railing-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Akhurst Farmhouse, Selling
- OS grid reference
- TR 032 559
- Coordinates
- 51.26661, 0.91227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Akhurst Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century. It features a timber frame that is exposed with painted brick infill and has a plain tiled roof. The structure is a four framed bay hall house, standing two storeys tall with an attic. The framing is irregularly panelled and sits on a plinth, topped with a hipped roof that has gablets. There is a single gabled dormer, and the chimney stacks are offset, projecting to the front right and clustered to the centre left. On the first floor, there are three wooden casements, and on the ground floor, there is one to the right. The entrance is a boarded door located in a central raking porch, with a boarded loft door to the left that has ladder steps leading up to it. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot. Inside, the roof features a crown-post that is braced to tie beams.
Local climate
Akhurst Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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